Example sentences of "had [vb pp] it had " in BNC.
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| 1 | The clouds of water vapour that had surrounded it had condensed to form seas , but they were still hot . |
| 2 | ( The bank clerk who had occupied it had been called up to the army . ) |
| 3 | It had been parked on that spot for at least three hours , probably much longer , for whoever had parked it had very likely done so before the evening traffic build-up . |
| 4 | At the time she had supposed it had been a reaction to his upbringing , all those years spent in his parents ' elegant Georgian house on the edge of a quiet , beautiful Sussex village . |
| 5 | What it had done it had done , immaculately , consummately , flawlessly , without unseemly protest or undue noise . |
| 6 | So what they had done it had a big slab there and it had got on it er The World 's Largest Slate Mine , and perhaps you 've seen it yourself they 've rubbed the T off and they put V and somebody 's done a very good job of it er in the same paint and everything . |
| 7 | Firstly Burmin , the company exploring Croagh Patrick , were at an advanced stage of prospecting : the company had said it had found ‘ an extensive gold-bearing structure ’ and ‘ an economic deposit ’ . |
| 8 | Labour leader Coun John Williams accused Coun Richmond of hypocrisy and said in the past when Labour had debated South Africa the Tories had said it had no relevance for Darlington . |
| 9 | She 'd collected her wedding dress , and it was n't what she wanted ; it did n't fit properly , and the woman in Drogheda who had made it had gone away on holiday , and her assistant did n't know anything about it , and was n't a seamstress , so now what the hell was she supposed to do ? |
| 10 | I was surprised , for I had lost all count of time and had felt it had gone on for a week . |
| 11 | He had often experienced it , he assured us , but had thought it had died out with the Christian missionary influence of recent years . |
| 12 | The transactions by which Union Discount had alleged it had suffered loss were too remote from reporting on the accounts . |
| 13 | The true Gothic city , as Pugin indicates in his contrasting townscapes of 1440 and 1840 ( Fig. 30 ) , was a thing of the past , not only because its architecture had largely been destroyed , but even more because the spirit that had animated it had been wholly lost . |
| 14 | When it had arrived it had needed a separate table just to accommodate it ; luckily the restaurant was n't busy . |
| 15 | Whoever had burnt it had evidently been in a hurry , unless , of course , he had been concerned only to destroy certain pages . |
| 16 | The obelisk was nearly completed , and a place had been prepared for it near the south pylon of the Temple of Ptah ; the barge which had brought it had long since returned to the quarries upriver . |
| 17 | The cult had remained after those who had brought it had embraced the gods of the Black Land , the true gods , the gods of the land in which they now lived , but it remained as no more than a fashion among the rich . |
| 18 | The disquiet and consternation he had set up among the brothers would go on echoing and re-echoing for some time , while he who had caused it had recoiled into numbness and exhaustion . |
| 19 | It was possible to believe that the sale and all the unpleasantness which had followed it had never taken place . |
| 20 | The irony was that those who had observed it had considered her spoiled and stuck-up . |
| 21 | Professor MacFee had read it had been startled by its undoubted merit , and had carefully discussed it chapter by chapter with him , suggesting how to improve it . |